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And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments;

הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.

מֵהָֽאֹכֵל֙ (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַחִידָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”

On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"

הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַ֣חִידָ֔ה (הַ֣) ha. “the”

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

הַֽחִידָ֥ה (הַֽ) ha. “the”

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen.

הַיָּמִ֔ים (הַ) hai. “the”הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַחִידָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “the”

And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."

הָעִ֜יר (הָ) ha. “the”הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַחַ֔רְסָה (הַ) ha. “the”

And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ash'kelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.

הַחֲלִיפ֔וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”הַחִידָ֑ה (הַ) ha. “<of> the”

After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a kid; and he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.

הֶחָ֑דְרָה (הֶ) he. “the”

And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Pray take her instead."

הַקְּטַנָּה֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines, when I do them mischief."

הַפַּ֖עַם (הַ) ha. “this”

So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches; and he turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

הַזְּנָב֖וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”

Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

הַתִּמְנִ֔י (הַ) ha. “the”

They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

הַסָּֽלַע׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

הָעֲבֹתִ֜ים (הָ) ha. “the”

And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men."

הַחֲמ֔וֹר (הַ) ha. “the”הַחֲמ֔וֹר (הַ) ha. “the”

When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ra'math-le'hi.

הַלְּחִ֖י (הַ) ha. “the”הַה֖וּא (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And he was very thirsty, and he called on the LORD and said, "Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

הַתְּשׁוּעָ֥ה (הַ) ha. “the”הַגְּדֹלָ֖ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַזֹּ֑את (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָעֲרֵלִֽים׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkor'e; it is at Lehi to this day.

הַמַּכְתֵּ֣שׁ (הַ) ha. “the”הַיּ֥וֹם (הַ) hai. “the”הַזֶּֽה׃ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."

הַלַּ֖יְלָה (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הַבֹּ֖קֶר (הַ) ha. “the”

But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

הַלַּיְלָה֒ (הַ) ha. “the”הַלַּ֗יְלָה (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִיר֙ (הָ) ha. “the”הַמְּזוּז֔וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”הַבְּרִ֔יחַ (הַ) ha. “the”הָהָ֔ר (הָ) ha. “the”

And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

הָאָדָֽם׃ (הָ) ha. “<the>”

Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

וְהָאֹרֵ֗ב (הָ) ha. “the”הַיְתָרִ֔ים (הַ) ha “the”הַנְּעֹ֙רֶת֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

הָאָדָֽם׃ (הָ) ha. “<the>”

So Deli'lah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in wait were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב (הָ) ha. “the”

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

הַמַּסָּֽכֶת׃ (הַ) ha. “the”הַקִּיר (הַ) ha. “the”הָאָדָם׃ (הָ) ha. “<the>”